EX-24.2 32 dex242.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY OF CERTAIN DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV Power of Attorney of Certain Directors and Officers of Anheuser-Busch InBev

EXHIBIT 24.2

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Reference is hereby made to the proposed registration by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (“AB InBev”) under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of U.S.$1,500,000,000 principal amount of 3.000% Notes due 2012, U.S.$1,250,000,000 principal amount of 4.125% Notes due 2015, U.S.$2,250,000,000 principal amount of 5.375% Notes due 2020 and U.S.$500,000,000 principal amount of 6.375% Notes due 2040, together with the guarantees thereof (collectively, the “Securities”). Such Securities will be registered on one or more registration statements on Form F-4 (each such registration statement, a “Registration Statement”) filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints any Vice President of AB InBev, the Corporate Secretary or any Assistant Corporate Secretary of AB InBev, and each of them, with full power to act alone, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign one or more Registration Statements, any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and any subsequent registration statement in respect of the Securities that is to be effective upon filing by AB InBev pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith in order to effect the registration of the Securities under the Securities Act and qualification of the Securities, the related indenture and any other instrument under the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but which taken together, shall constitute one instrument.

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Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Carlos Brito

    Carlos Brito
    Chief Executive Officer
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Felipe Dutra

    Felipe Dutra
    Chief Financial Officer
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 23, 2009     By:  

/s/ Jean-Luc Dehaene

    Jean-Luc Dehaene
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 23, 2009     By:  

/s/ Stéfan Descheemaeker

    Stéfan Descheemaeker
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Peter Harf

    Peter Harf
   

Director

(Chairman of the Board)

    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

[Signature page of Power of Attorney]


Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Marcel Hermann Telles

    Marcel Hermann Telles
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 23, 2009     By:  

/s/ Jorge Paul Lemann

    Jorge Paulo Lemann
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 23, 2009     By:  

/s/ Grégoire de Spoelberch

    Grégoire de Spoelberch
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Kees J. Storm

    Kees J. Storm
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Roberto Moses Thompson Motta

    Roberto Moses Thompson Motta
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Alexandre Van Damme

    Alexandre Van Damme
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

[Signature page of Power of Attorney]


Date: November 24, 2009     By:  

/s/ Carlos Alberto da Veiga Sicupira

    Carlos Alberto da Veiga Sicupira
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Date: November 23, 2009     By:  

/s/ Mark Winkelman

    Mark Winkelman
    Director
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

[Signature page of Power of Attorney]